British police investigating after Russian exile found dead in London home

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Staff Reuters

WATCH ABOVE: The president today joined British Prime Minister Theresa May in calling for Russia to come clean on the poisoning of a former spy in England. And while that was happening, we learned another Russian has turned up dead, in London.

British counter-terrorism police are investigating the unexplained death of a Russian associate of late tycoon Boris Berezovsky, but said the death was not thought to be linked to a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent.

Berezovsky was found dead in March 2013 with a scarf tied around his neck in the bathroom of a luxury mansion in Ascot, an affluent English town near the Queen’s Windsor Castle, west of London.

The 67-year-old tycoon had been one of Russia’s most powerful figures in the years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He was known as the “godfather of the Kremlin” before fleeing to London in 2000 after a row with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.